Mr. MEIGHEN:

Will the minister explain this bill? It has a peculiar title.

Sir LOMER GOUIN:

The purpose of the bill is to prohibit the publication of evidence in marriage and divorce proceedings without authority from the House or the Senate. It is a bill which comes from the Senate.

1. How many licenses for bonded warehouses for storage of intoxicating liquors in bond are in force in the province of British Columbia?

2. What are the names of the licensees and the dates of the licenses now in force and granted prior to 1920, and the locations in respect of which they were granted ?

3. What is the duration of such licenses, and has the government power to cancel or revoke same, and if so, for what reason ?

Questions

1. There are at present in the province of British Columbia 25 customs warehouses for storage of intoxicating liquor in bond, 9 of which, however are inactive.

There are 3 licenses for excise bonded liquor warehouses in force at present.

2. None of the customs or excise bonded liquor warehouses at present in force in British Columbia wer.j authorized prior to 1920. The Provincial Government Vendor had been granted a customs bonded warehouse at Vancouver prior to 1920, but this bond now stands in the name of the Provincial Government Liquor Control Board.

3. A customs bonded warehouse for storage of intoxicating liquor is only granted upon unconditional consent of provincial authorities and remains in force until cancelled by the minister for cause or withdrawal of provincial consent.

License for an excise liquor bonded warehouse is granted under similar conditions for a period not extending beyond fiscal year in which granted, but may be renewed with consent of provincial authorities, and is subject to cancellation for any infraction of the Inland Revenue Act.

1. How long has the present system of condemnation insurance been in vogue in Canada?

2. Is the per cent dockage the same for both cattle and swine?

3. Is the per cent dockage the same for all parts of Canada ?

4. Is it the same for cattle and swine of all ages?

5. What data have been collected to ascertain whether the amount of dockage collected is greater or less than the losses sustained because of condemnation?

6. What data have been collected to determine whether or not disease is more prevalent among cattle over 5 years old than among those under 5?

7. How is the loss sustained because of condemnation arrived at ?

8. Have any data been collected with a view to ascertaining the average amount of salvage from a condemned carcase?

9. If so what is the approximate ratio of the salvage to the first cost of the live animal?

10. Is it the purpose of the system of condemnation insurance in vogue in Canada to reimburse the butchers for animals condemned whether the ailment for which the animal is condemned is visible to the buyer or not?

11. In what countries other than Canada, is a flat rate of dockage collected regardless of age, class, or point of origin of the animals?

12. What is the custom in Great Britain with respect to these matters?

1. Since 1907 or thereabouts when inspection of meats first become operative in Can-dian packing plants. [DOT]

2. The tax works out at i of 1 per cent on both cattle and swine. At Toronto cows

are docked 50 cents per head other cattle 20 cents and shop hogs J of 1 per cent.

3. Yes. It works out at \ of 1 per cent.

4. Yes.

5. Understand that the packers have collected some data.

6. Nil.

7. Information available from the packers.

8. Nil.

9. Information available from the packers.

10. It may not be the purpose but it is the effect.

11. No information.

12. No information.

Note.-This is an insurance practice adopt ed by the packers and the trade generallj at the stock yards to protect themselves against loss from diseased animals which disease is only revealed on post mortem examination. If it were abolished by law as it could be it is feared that it would only result in buyers reducing their bids by a greater amount than that now charged the producer on account of this condemnation insurance.

1. What was the cost of the T. B. test in Edmonton from 1921 to date?

2. What was the amount of compensation paid to

owners of reactors? .

3. What was the amount paid to officials for service?

4. What was the amount paid to officials .for travelling expenses ?

5. WThat was the distance travelled by officials?

6. What was the number of cattle tested?

7. What was the number of reactors?

8. What was the cost per head of cattle tested?

1. From the date of commencement, May 1st, 1922 to February 28th, 1923.

Compensation to owners.. $50,712.83

Salaries 8,703.00

Travelling expenses 6,866.00

Supplies, thermometers,

tags, etc 1,181.70

Tuberculin 3,663.27

2. $50,712.83 obligation incurred but not all

yet paid. .

3. $8,703.

4. $6,866.

5. Mileage by road, 36,830; Mileage by rail, 4,031; total 40,861.

6. 11,817 cattle tested once, but 16,783 first and subsequent tests applied.

7. 1,381. . '

8. On first test alone including compensation, $6.02; On first test alone excluding com-

Questions

pensation, SI.73; On first and subsequent tests including compensation, $4.24; On first and subsequent tests excluding compensation, SI.22.

Mr. COOTE:

What was the address and the occupation of each member of the Board of Railway Commissioners, previous to his appointment?

Hon. Mr. GRAHAM:

Hon. F. B. Carvell, K.C., Chief Commissioner, Minister of Public Works, Ottawa.

S. J. McLean, Asst. Chief Commissioner, Professor of Economics, and Transportation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.

Hon. W. B. Nantel, K.C., Deputy Chief Commissioner, Barrister, St. Jerome, P.Q.

A. C. Boyce, K.C., Commissioner, Barrister, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

Dr. J. G. Rutherford, C.M.G., Commissioner, Supt. of Agriculture and Animal Industry, Dept, of Natural Resources, C. P. Ry., President, Western Canada Live Stock Union, Calgary, Alta.

Calvin Lawrence, Commissioner, Legislative Representative, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Ottawa.